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COLMAR FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY

(La Nécropole Nationale de Colmar)

Haut-Rhin

France

GPS Coordinates: 48°05'42.6"N 7°22'26.5"E

Colmar French National Cemetery
Image © Johan Pauwels

​Location Information

Colmar is a city in the Haut-Rhin region of France. The Colmar French National Cemetery is located in the North of the city and the entrance is on the Rue de Ladhof.

Historical Information


Colmar National Cemetery contains the graves of French soldiers killed in combat in June 1940 and in 1944/1945. Built in 1958 and further developed up until 1960, this site is a cemetery that groups together in the same location the remains of soldiers initially buried in the makeshift military cemeteries located in the Moselle, Meuse, Vosges, Bas-Rhin and Belfort regions of France.

Today, the cemetery contains the bodies of 2,278 soldiers, 1,768 of whom were killed between 1940 and 1945, as well as the bodies of 8 French deportees, 17 forced labourers and 65 prisoners of war, including 11 Poles. The bodies of 510 French soldiers killed at battles in the Vosges region during the First World War have been transferred to this cemetery. Close to this cemetery is a German cemetery, where the bodies of 868 soldiers killed from 1914-1918 are buried.


Total Burials: 2,278.

World War One Burials: 510. 

World War Two Burials: 1,768.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery

Some of the Individual Graves

​Images © Johan Pauwels

Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery
Colmar French National Cemetery

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The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
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